The Cultural Interpretation Of The Construction Words In Shuowen Jiezi

Shuowen Jiezi written by Xu Shen in Donghan Dynasty is a very important exegetics monograph in Chinese ancient times. In this book, Xu Shen made a thorough interpretation on the form and meaning of the Chinese characters, thus made it not only become a monograph of philology and exegetics, but also was full of cultural value. This article chooses one aspect of its vocabulary—construction words to study. By describing and analyzing these words, excavates deeply the relations between them and Chinese ancient culture. This article is divided into three parts:First, the author defines the construction words in shuowen Jiezi and the scope of the construction words. After that, the author explains the radical of these words in order to inquiring into the relations between them and the radicals in modern Chinese. At the same time, this article also makes a thorough statistics and analysis to these words in Shuowen Jiezi. Therefore, the author draws a general picture of constructions words in Shuowen Jiezi.Second, according to the definition of those construction words, the author classifies them into nine kinds. Thus, the author finds out some information about both the development conditions of Chinese construction and the changing condition of Chinese ancients people's living style.Third, by the method of combining the traditional exegetics with the modern cultural linguistics, the author analyses the meaning development of some construction words in Shuowen Jiezi, and tries to find out the cultural information about world outlook, social the estate system, worship of ancestor, aesthetic consciousness and society organization system of the Chinese ancient people.